Proposed U.S. Law Could Slap Twitch Streamers With Felonies For Broadcasting Copyrighted Material
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The United States government is, as we all know, extremely functional. It’s so functional, in fact, that it regularly struggles to pass spending bills in order to prevent itself from shutting down. The latest “must-pass” bill, like many of its predecessors, includes controversial measures that wouldn’t be able to pass on their own, negotiated with the high stakes of this particular bill in mind. One of them would turn unauthorised streaming of copyrighted material into a felony.
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